From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([207.224.49.210] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JRMlk-0005XL-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:20:00 -0500 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org (localhost.localdomain [IPv6:::1]) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m1J7Jxn9029914 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:19:59 GMT Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m1J7JxYa029911 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:19:59 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:19:58 -0700 (MST) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" To: SPEAKUP Distribution List Subject: Trying out Speech Dispatcher. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:20:00 -0000 Hi all, I finally got around to taking a look at Speech Dispatcher. I ran into two problems so far. Using either ibmtts or espeak, SD would often split words while reading. Configuration would sometimes come out as con figuration, and so on. Worse yet, it appears that SD doesn't support pitch changes for uppercase letters. When I was finished playing with the new configuration, I switched back to Marc Mulcahy's spk-connect-viavoice. To my surprise and lack of amusement, I no longer had a pitch change on caps. I tried everything I could think of, even resetting /proc/speakup/synnth_name from sftsyn to none and back again. Nothing helped short of a reboot. Any ideas? -- Bill in Denver